On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:26:11 -0500, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure about that? Contriving examples is easy, but download a > few modules, scan them for use cases, and you may find, as I did, that > partial() rarely applies. The argument order tends to be problematic. > > Grepping through the standard library yields no favorable examples.
I also didn't find many the last time I looked through: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/257990.html > In inspect.py, you could replace "formatvarkw=lambda name: '**' + name" > with "partial(operator.add, '**') but that would not be an improvement. Yeah, I remember thinking that the nicer way to write this was probably formatvarkw='**%s'.__mod__ Steve -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
